[accesscomp] Re: question

  • From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:54:15 -0600

I'll make one or two more comments. It may be that UAC has nothing to do with the message you heard. I'm not sure if UAC tells you you need administrative permission to do something. It may just ask if you want to allow a program to run or make changes. Since I don't useUAC because I use XP, I don't know the details. However, if you haven't gotten UAC messages when taking actions such as installing programs, it may have been turned off by someone who set up your computer. It is essential that you know what UAC is and does. If UAC is turned off, Vista is no more secure than Windows XP. I would strongly recommend that anyone who is not knowledgeable about security have UAC on. I would recommend that even knowledgeable have UAC turned on unless they are using programs that duplicate all security features found in UAC. 


Gene
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: [accesscomp] Re: question



First, are you using JAWS?  Do you have a cd for JAWS 9?
If you installed the training material, you can find the isection using the demo JAWS Daisey reader already on your machine. If you don't have the help installed or would rather listen using a different player, you can download 
an mp3 training file from the Freedom Scientific site.

Go to
http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/training/training-downloads.asp#jawsmp3
and look for a link that says
Introduction to Windows Vista (MP3 49.5MB).
Make sure it does not say daisy in the link.
Download the file, extract the files and start with the first one. As I recall, the download will be a zip folder. I 
believe it begins or almost immediately demonstrates installing JAWS.
Working with UAC is demonstrated during the discussion.

Or if you know how to use JAWS help, try using the index to look up uac or
the search part of JAWS help. I haven't looked at the help so I don't know 
what you might find.

Gene
----- Original Message ----- From: "arlene" <nedster6@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:14 AM
Subject: [accesscomp] Re: question



thanks, I don't  understand  UAC and what it's for! Where  can I go to
learn it?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:29 PM
Subject: [accesscomp] Re: question




Is that all the dialog says?  How did you read it?  Did you use the
screen-reader command to read the dialog or are you relying on your
screen-reader just automatically reading a sentence when the dialog
opens.
Vista has a feature named UAC, User Account Control that asks you every
time
you take a potentially harmful action that makes changes to Windows in
some
way whether you want to do this and I believe the UAC message always says 
something about administrative priveleges to make a change.  If you
haven't
done so, read the full dialog and see if buttons are present to allow you 
to
continue, cancel, etc. If you don't know about UAC or understand what it 
does, you need to learn about it because it is an integral part of
security
in Vista.

If you already know about UAC and have seen that dialog before and this
one
is different, let the list know.  If you need information about UAC,
those
on the list who use Vista may be able to provide better information than
I
can.  If not enough people on the list use UAC to give you good
information,
it can be gotten from the JAWS training material and is just as relevant
and
applicable whether you use JAWS or not.  this is a Windows feature with
Windows commands, not screen-reader commands, for working with it.
Everything in the JAWS training material describing how to work with UAC
applies just as much regardless of what screen-reader you use.

Gene
----- Original Message ----- From: "arlene" <nedster6@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:05 PM
Subject: [accesscomp] question


Hello: this is in my lap top  computer  with  Vista!
Hello, all. I have super anti spy ware and it's asking for an update.
However, when I allow the update, I receive a dialog that says, "you must 
have administrative privileges to allow this update" and I do not know
how
to do this in Vista. thanks for any help you can provide.





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